Tonight on The Readout, this is a dark time in America.

We have a lot of problems and we're really, really hopeful and prayerful.

Prayer is appropriate in a time like this that the evil can end and this senseless violence can stop.

Prayer is but no actual plan for the new house speaker following yet another math slaughter of human beings.

This time in Lewiston, Maine.

And tonight we're learning more about the far right extreme views of speaker Mike Johnson.

Among other things, he's an election denier and wants to ban abortion nationwide.

And that's really bad for Republicans heading into the next election.

Plus, special counsel Jack Smith has had enough of Trump's big mouth.

But will a judge agree to Smith's request to reimpose a gag order on criminal defendant Trump?

But we begin tonight with yet another devastating mass killing in America.

At 656 last night, just before we went on the air, police responded to a report of an active shooter at the spare time recreation bowling alley in Lewiston, Maine.

Wednesday night happens to be youth bowling night.

At 708 p.m., roughly 10 minutes later, police responded to another report of an active shooter at this time at Shamengi's bar and grill.

This morning, an emotional and an emotional briefing, Maine Governor Janet Mills confirmed that 18 innocent people were dead and 13 wounded.

She added this.

Lewiston is where I worked for years. It's where I met and married my husband and where our girls went to school.

I love this place just as I love our whole state with my entire heart.

This city did not deserve this terrible assault on its citizens, on its peace of mind, on its sense of security.

No city does, no state, no people. This attack strikes at the very heart of who we are.

State police say seven people died at the bowling alley, six males and one female.

Eight people died at the bar, seven males inside the bar and one outside.

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